Mind-blowing scientific predictions for the next 25 thousand years!

30 dramatic scientific predictions

It's never easy to forecast the future. Throughout history, writers, scientists, and by and large, gifted people have prognosticated about the future. Looking back on these predictions is usually laughable, but every now and then, someone hits the nail on the head. While predictions of the future can never be absolutely certain, let’s jump forward in time and see what some scientists have said may happen within the next 25 thousand years…

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Everyone will know every language

People will be fluent in every language. With various Internet giants racing to perfect instant translation, it won't be long until your cellphone speaks Chinese on your behalf.

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Your car will be truly connected

It will communicate with traffic lights to improve traffic flow. It will interact with other vehicles to prevent accidents. It will let you drag and drop a playlist from your home network. It will find the petrol pump and handle the payment. It will notify you when someone dents your door and supply footage of the incident.

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Whatever you need will be inside a 3D printer

Dentists are already using this modern tech wonder to transform laser scans of your mouth into custom-fit appliances for your teeth. But that's a fraction of what the machine can do. When a 3D printer costs the same as, say, an HDTV, you will use one of your own to download all sorts of useful things, marveling as it creates each item layer by layer from plastic, rubber, titanium - you name it. Just imagine your future self printing a birthday cake or a Rolex.

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Electronic noses

Rescuers will use electronic noses to locate disaster victims. Some devices will use an array of sensors to rapidly detect carbon dioxide, ammonia, and acetone released into the rubble via breath, sweat, and skin. Others sniff out chemical compounds from human remains buried 3 feet underground. All keep working long after the dogs have retired to their kennels.

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Vaccines will wipe out drug addiction

The human immune system is supremely adept at detecting and neutralizing foreign substances. Why not train it to target illicit ones? That's the idea behind addiction vaccines: Persuade the body to produce antibodies that shut down drug molecules before they get to the brain.

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Contact lenses will grant us Terminator vision

When miniaturization reaches its full potential, achieving superhuman eyesight will be as simple as placing a soft lens on your eye. Circuits and antennas can also be grafted onto flexible polymer, enabling zooming, night vision, and visible data fields.

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We may become cyborgs within 200 years

Humans may "upgrade" themselves to become cyborgs within the next 200 years, merging man and machine to potentially live forever, according to a Hebrew University professor. Yuval Noah Harari, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem believes the wealthy will transform into a new type of divine, immortal human with complete power over life and death. Human dissatisfaction will drive mankind to "upgrade themselves" — and that cyborg technology will allow them to do this, according to Harari.

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Colonisation of the Milky Way

In the year 2,500 more than 20,000 ships set out, 2 headed for each planet. It was inevitable that many ships would successfully make the journey. No one knew what they would find. There was no plan for communication between the stars. The colonisation of the Milky Way had begun.

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Personal genomics

Personalised medicine, in which drugs are prescribed according to the patient's molecular background rather than by trial and error, can become reality. The ultimate empowerment of medical consumers, who will know their own disease risks and seek commensurate treatment, rather than relying on the hunches and folklore of a paternalistic family doctor.

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Oceans will be extensively farmed

We will need to feed 10 billion people and nature can't keep up with demand, so we will need much more ocean farming for fish. But algae farming is also on the way for renewable energy, and maybe even for growth of feedstock (raw materials) or resource extraction via GM seaweed or algae.

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Synthetic telepathy

We will have the ability to communicate through thought transmission. Transmission will be just as easy as other forms of brain augmentation. Picking up thoughts and relaying them to another brain will not be much harder than storing them on the net.

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Space elevators will make space travel cheap and easy

First space elevators will certainly be around, and although "cheap" is a relative term, it will certainly be a lot cheaper than conventional space development. It will create a strong acceleration in space development and tourism will be one important area, but I doubt the costs will be low enough for most people to try.

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Invisible universe

We could learn that there's an invisible universe that mirrors our own. No one knows whether we are alone out here or not and in some thousands of years we will definitely get all our answers.

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20 to 30 percent species will extinct

Sadly some scientists have predicted that about 20 to 30 percent species will face extinction within next 100 years. This will be known as the 6th mass extinction on planet earth. The extinction event will be the result of habitat destruction and climate change due to human activity.

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Immortality

Human beings are predicted to have an average life span of 140 years in the future and will also have the technological capabilities of digital storage of the human personality. This will enable them to achieve immortality.

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North Pole will go South and vice versa

In the next 2000 years, scientists have predicted that the earth's magnetic field would flip. These studies show that the pole switches every half a million year or so. There are also evidences that suggest that before the earth's magnetic pole switch, the magnetic field slowly fades out and reappears with the poles reversed. Since the Earth's magnetic fields protect us from the Sun's harmful radiation, as it faded we may face a disaster.

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The world’s biggest mystery will surely untangle

In the 1974 a collection of radio data was broadcasted into the space through frequency modulated radio waves and was called the Arecibo message. The message was aimed at the current location of globular star cluster M13 some 25,000 light years away because M13 was a large and close collection of stars that was available in the sky at the time and place of the ceremony. Within 25 thousand years the message will reach its destination. So the question is will somebody be there to receive it?

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Superhuman powers will be available to all

The nanotechnology of recent decades has conferred powers to citizens that would be considered superhuman by 21st century standards. These upgraded "transhumans" could perform feats regarded as Godlike to denizens of earlier times.

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Mars and Jupiter will be terraformed

Terraforming means transforming (a planet) so as to resemble the earth, especially so that it can support human life. By the middle of this millenium, the Red Planet will be turned from a cold, dead world into a lush, Eden-like paradise. This monumental achievement will be the result of human collaboration on a planet-wide scale.

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The earth may cool instead

The wide spread belief in Global Warming is controversial, while temperatures are rising some scientists believe that it isn’t out of pattern for the Earth and that in the next century we may face a cooling rather than warming. Obviously this would change evolution, but the same principle applies.

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Humans will be typically 7ft tall living 120+ years

The improvements in healthcare, education and living standards will make humans evolving into a race of giants – 7ft tall, muscular and highly athletic, with lifespans of 120+. Note that this lifespan refers to purely biological (non-cyborg) humans, who will comprise a small minority by then.

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Vertical farms will feed cities

There will be 9 billion people on the planet in 2050, seven out of 10 of them in urban areas, and everyone's got to eat. Future food production will depend on farmscrapers that grow pesticide-free crops year-round—making it much simpler to eat local.

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End of harm

In the brains of everyone, from abusive parents and rapists to arms dealers and heads of state, there can arise a concatenation of nerve impulses which allow someone to see as 'normal'... the mutilation, maiming or death of another for one's own pleasure, greed or benefit ... If such a specific pattern of brain activity were detectable, could methods then be devised that prevented or disrupted it whenever it was about to arise?

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A vaccine will rid the world of Aids

Within 25 years, the world will achieve many major successes in tackling the deadliest diseases of all. Certainly, we will be polio-free and probably will have been for more than a decade. The fight to eradicate polio represents one of the greatest achievements in global health to date.

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Climate-controlled fashion wear

The climate controlled clothes will protect soldiers from extreme heat and cold. The secret to all-weather clothing is Peltier plates, which can be used to warm you up or cool you down by sending an electric current across the junction between two different metals.

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Bridges will repair themselves

This would be done with self-healing concrete. Invented by University of Michigan engineer Victor Li, the new composite is laced with microfibers that bend without breaking. Hairline fractures mend themselves within days when calcium ions in the mix react with rainwater and carbon dioxide to create a calcium carbonate patch.

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Athletes will employ robotic trainers

Picture a rotor-propelled drone that tracks a pattern on your T-shirt with an onboard camera. Now imagine it flying in front of you at world-record pace.

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Checkups will be conducted by cellphone

Scientists are hard at work trying to perfect apps that can measure your heart and respiration rates, perform blood and saliva tests—even evaluate your cough. Question is how long it will take the medical industry to embrace them.

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Self-cleaning buildings

These buildings will help us fight smog. When sunlight strikes their aluminum skin, a titanium dioxide coating releases free radicals, which break down the grime and convert toxic nitrogen oxide molecules in the air into a harmless nitrate. Everything washes away in the rain.

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No animal testing

Drugs will be tested on "organ chips" that mimic the human body. The new silicon chip will feature channels that house living kidney or lung cells. Simulated blood and oxygen flow allows them to mirror the actions of real organs, reducing the need for animal testing and speeding up drug development.